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Margaret Kolb reviews Patricia Lockwood's No One Is Talking About This and Lauren Oyler's Fake Accounts, two “significant achievements” yet “bleak harbingers for where the American novel might be headed.”@riverheadbooks @CatapultStory https://t.co/EKGgNnfwR1 https://t.co/qZCKMfxVuN

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4/20! Join MAKE and @LAReviewofBooks for a virtual conversation about contemporary Mexican literature with @isanchezprado, author of the forthcoming 'Mexican Literature as World Literature.' Hosted by Lit & Luz Book Club Director @MiguelJimenezP https://t.co/YxIjESGM87 https://t.co/ZBjsPqLtzX

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Katherine Preston reviews Carlos Manuel Álvarez’s The Fallen, a work that “offers multiple experiences of living in Cuba through the voices of a contemporary Cuban family of four.” @GraywolfPress https://t.co/eg5erfVpxA https://t.co/wPFkeKME5s

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@killian_quigley reviews Paige Lewis's Space Struck, a collection of poems that renders "precarious coincidences: of banality and bizarrerie, of regularity and eccentricity, of love and dread." @sarabandebooks https://t.co/VI2lNPcVCe https://t.co/nu6E9b9V4F

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Margaret Kolb reviews Patricia Lockwood's No One Is Talking About This and Lauren Oyler's Fake Accounts, two “significant achievements” yet “bleak harbingers for where the American novel might be headed.”@riverheadbooks @CatapultStory https://t.co/EKGgNnfwR1 https://t.co/qZCKMfxVuN

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Simon Demetriou reviews Zena Hitz’s Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life. "For Hitz," Demetriou writes, "the pure love of learning, and the humanity that underlies it, exist in all of our original selves. " @PrincetonUPress https://t.co/sU8JNvEsga

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A fantastic article by @lilyjmeyer, opening with the origin story of Julia Sanches's translation of the essay collection Migratory Birds (@transitbooks) by @marianaoliver. MB is the current Lit & Luz Book Club title. See Mariana in Chicago at this fall: https://t.co/F1FTsIYzZY! https://t.co/cFNDuSwjCx

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Alec Schumacher reviews Maricela Guerrero’s The Dream of Every Cell – translated by Robin Myers – a collection of poems that “reveals itself as an organism, as a structure of interrelated cells that communicate and feed each other.” @CardboardHouseP https://t.co/tXHMSKT87u https://t.co/2q9W2sE2lL

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Join us tomorrow, Sep. 8th, at 6:30pm CT for a live conversation with @ValeriaLuiselli and special guest, @ErikaLSanchez. We will be discussing her novel, Lost Children Archive. We'll be taking questions! Link in bio. See you there! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blyqkFUDKfY&ab_channel=MAKE%2FLit%26Luz https://t.co/GMYvLBJH8h

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At https://t.co/C5cQsU6KtG, Devin King reviews Hilary Holladay's The Power of Adrienne Rich and Heather Clark's Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath. @Nan_A_Talese @AAKnopf https://t.co/rfNB2Aplx8 https://t.co/psRfJAKDHt